Posted
by
ScuttleMonkey
on Wednesday March 29, 2006 @12:26PM
from the ghost-cars dept.

Belfegor writes "The PBS series Nova has a great feature on their website, regarding the coverage of the DARPA-sponsored 'Robot Race' in which driverless vehicles 'competed' in a 130-mile race across the Mojave Desert. The full show is available on the website, and besides that they have plenty more information about the robotics behind the challenge, and also some pretty cool out-takes from the show."

What do you do in the future when one of these is mass-produced and forgets its turn signal and cuts you off?
Do you scream and give it the finger?
Throw rocks at it?
Run it off the road?
Launch a homing missile at it?
Any way around it, driverless vehicles will have no rights in our future society!
Who will speak up for the robots?